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    Daphne du Maurier’s hidden treasure gives hoarders hope | Rebecca Nicholson

    Those of us wishing for an Antiques Roadshow find of our own were heartened by the discovery of two unknown poems
    by Rebecca Nicholson Apr 20, 2019 3 minutes
    Daphne du Maurier in 1944. Photograph: Hans Wild/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

    I suspect that those of us of a mildly hoarder-ish persuasion all secretly believe that we’re going to have an Antiques Roadshow moment, when something we’ve held on to, that isn’t one of several hundred branded tote bags, turns out to have been truly worth keeping. Bookish types have had a bumper week of evidence that this discovery fantasy may one day come true.

    A handful of poems written by Daphne du Maurier – two previously unknown – have been found in an archive of letters of the author in a swimming costume. It is believed they

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